Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Thursday, October 21: The Promise: Make Your Life Rich by Discovering Your Best Self, plus Taos Soul by J.H. Farr (Today’s Sponsor), and over 100 more fully updated and category-sorted free Kindle ebook listings

Our Free Book Alert theme this morning involves the spiritual gifts to be found in the natural world and within ourselves as we continue on a roll of sweet synchronicity between our daily sponsors and the latest additions to our listings of the newest free titles in the Kindle Store….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

Taos Soul: Love Stories, Heroes, and Wild Adventure

by John Hamilton Farr

Zoo Pilot Publishing – 5.0 out of 5 stars – Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Kindle Price: $2.99

(Ed. Note: I haven’t spent any time in Taos since I was a college kid under the spell of a brown-eyed enchantress from Albuquerque, but if you have spent any significant time there in the past decade there is a good chance you have already enjoyed the thoughtful, engaged, and often humorous writing of John Hamilton Farr, our sponsor today and a longtime columnist for Taos’ leading aternative newspaper. Happily, he has collected several dozen stories and pieces together in Taos Soul, and the collection confirms again what so many of us know about reading: it can be almost as great as visiting a new place … and so much less expensive! -S.W.)

Here’s the set-up:

“IT WAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, and the post office was full of Indians…”

From the opening sentence, you know you’re in a different world! Part memoir, nature writing, black comedy, confession, and journal of spiritual discovery, TAOS SOUL is a collection of 62 true stories about a passionate struggle to survive amidst extremes of weather, spirit, and the intense tri-cultural energy of northern New Mexico. Taos does something to people: What’s it like to live in an old adobe house at 7,000 feet with only a wood stove for heat and coyotes howling just outside the door? Have you ever hiked or driven where no one would find you if disaster struck? What happens to your marriage when your wife moves 1,200 miles away? And what happens in your heart, living on the edge where all of this is true?

The thematically arranged chapters cover the period from 2005 to 2010, beginning six years after the author and his wife moved from the quiet Eastern Shore of Maryland to the terrible beauty of Taos. By the time you finish, you may be wondering if you know yourself or America at all.

Reactions from around the Web:

Reader T.K. says, “Awesome work, and I can’t believe you’re selling it for $2.99.”
FreedomGuerrilla.com – “Each of the stories is dripping with earthy richness and, lacking a better word, soul.”
@jmartellaro – John Martellaro says, “John Farr sees things we miss…”
@mikecane – self-described ebook militant Mike Cane says of the Kindle formatting for TAOS SOUL, “It looks kick-ass good!”

Sections and Chapter Titles:

Love Stories:
Motherly Love, Island, Grounding by Default, Tunnel, River of Soul, Killing the First Elk, Poor Old Hobbes, Busted Down in Babylon, The Devil on Kinney Road, All-America Bloodline Blues, Three Centimeters, Run to Ground, Parts I-IV, Barest Bones, Vivir Otra Vez, Twenty-Five Years, Scenes from Deep Marriage, Lying Eyes, Something Happened to Me

Heroes:
Compulsion, Jesus Water-skis in Waco, Joe Sent Me, Windshield, Nine-Year Itch, Natural Born Killer, Yells-At-Nothing, The Ashley Gets a Knob, Not Coming Home for Supper, My Amazing Thursday, Monday Night Manuel, The Tao of Plumbing, Woodpile Kensho, Angel Stampede, Saved by Salvage, or An Ode to Junk, Grasshoppers of Llano Quemado, Dimensional Shift, Bleeding Heart, Home Canyon Security, Child of God

Wild Adventure:
Message for the Fourth, Daring Death in Dixon, No Bugs in New Mexico, Thirty-Year Gale, Journey to the Land of Giants, Part I & II, Taos for Dummies, Spiders in the Fruit Bowl, Eating the God, The Spring, Invitation, Dowser Man, Life in Mudtime, God Game, Dead Landlord Jokes, They’ll Never Take Me Alive, Crucible, Johnny and the Horned Toads, Adobe Winter Lockdown, Swimming to Arcturus, Piñon Lift

About the Author:

John Hamilton Farr is the author of TAOS SOUL: Love Stories, Heroes, and Wild Adventure, BUFFALO LIGHTS: Maryland to New Mexico, and dozens of columns for Horse Fly, a monthly Taos newspaper. He has published online relentlessly since 1997 and currently writes at 7,000 feet from Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A., blogging regularly at FarrFeed.com.

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The Promise: Make Your Life Rich by Discovering Your Best Self

By: Victor Davich

Added: 10/20/2010 2:01:04pm

Imagine what it would feel like to be effortlessly confident, powerful, and happy – to reap the riches you’re entitled to, just by being born?
From the creator of the program Time magazine calls “the most American form of meditation yet” comes an exciting new 8-minute action plan that will empower you to reclaim the true joy and fulfillment that is all your own. The Promise is a revolutionary new program that will allow you to embrace an extraordinary gift: Your Best Self. This treasure already lies within you – no matter what you may think, or have been told. And you can seize it with Victor Davich’s unique toolkit for transformation: STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN, a program comprised of more than a dozen powerful techniques. Here you’ll learn how to:
STOP runaway thinking, relax, “decelerate,” and de-stress your mind.
LOOK beyond self-limiting, negative beliefs, or judgments and opinions that hold you back.
LISTEN and become attuned to Your Best Self – the treasure within which true riches await you…
These and other exercises central to The Promise are easy-to-follow and done in just 8 minutes. And with names like “Buoyant Breathing,” “You’re Soaking in It,” and “French Press,” you know they’ll also be fun.
The promise of a rich, fulfilled, and joyful life awaits you.
Start living your dreams – as Your Best Self – today!